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53 RepResentative 1 It begins as a polyp. In the shape of a headless man, it marches along the sea floor. Where this man steps, another man will grow. When the water’s warm, his wrists break off, clear round by round, and, dangling tentacles, push upward (outward, inward), easy as breathing until you think 2 We’re reading words we don’t remember writing, words that aren’t words at all, bluffing it through to scattered applause 54 down the long seminar table. 3 White veined with wandering blue; blue seamed with white. That heaven could be built out of the names of gems! “Agate” and “Amethyst.” What did they represent? ...

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